One of those bills creates a $2.5 million grant that employers can tap into and use to train workers for the jobs that particular industry is having trouble filling.

There are tax credits designed to benefit everyone from homeowners to Hollywood-types making movies in our state.

There's Connor's Law, named named for a young child who drowned six years ago at a Crofton community pool. The measure requires pools to have defibrillators on hand and staff trained on how to use them. This bill is being called live-saving.

What didn't get done?

In tortuously slow fashion, the House dismissed the pit bull compromise that would have reversed a high court ruling that put an "inherently dangerous" tag around the neck of the breed. The compromise applied to all dogs and made pet owners strictly liable if the animal bit or injured someone aged 12 or younger.

Over in the Senate, speed-camera legislation prompted a one-man filibuster and, in the end, the bill had too many layers to make it out of the Legislature and to the governor's desk.

While the governor considers this session a success as the Legislature made his agenda their own, it's still up to voters to cast the final ballot as the opportunity for referendum still exists.